Assam Dancer, 20, Found Dead Near Andhra Railway Track, Cremated

Police said her family last spoke to her at around 1.30 pm on October 6

The 20-year-old tribal woman from the Bonda area on the outskirts of Guwahati, whose body was found near a railway track in the Srikakulam district of Andra Pradesh on October 7, reached her home on Saturday evening and was cremated.

Police is investigating the death of this dancer from Assam who had gone there for a performance, the family has claimed that she was murdered.

along with forensic experts, a clues team, dog squads and drone teams, is investigating the death of this dancer from Assam who had gone there for a performance, the family has claimed that she was murdered While the Andhra Pradesh Police Special Investigation Team (SIT). She contacted her college friend Jyothi Chowdari for help with ticketing, who in turn alerted her schoolmate Eswar of Raghu Engineering College. As Eswar was some distance away, he asked his friend Abinash to assist the woman, Andhra Pradesh police sources added. Railway police later inspected the train and recovered Boro’s luggage from the S2 coach.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has earlier this week written to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw urging their intervention and impartial and time-bound investigation into the circumstances surrounding the 20-year-old’s death.

A co-passenger reportedly claimed that she had “fallen from the running train”, Andhra Pradesh police sources added, but back at her Guwahati residence everyone believed she was murdered.